Nielsen - Aladdin | Chandos - Classics CHAN10498X

Nielsen - Aladdin

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Label: Chandos - Classics

Cat No: CHAN10498X

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 27th October 2008

Contents

Artists

Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
Danish National Chamber Choir/DR

Conductor

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Works

Nielsen, Carl

Aladdin: Incidental Music, op.34

Artists

Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
Danish National Chamber Choir/DR

Conductor

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

About

Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir in the incidental music composed by Carl Nielsen in 1918-1919 for a play at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, based on the story of Aladdin. Full of exotic delights, the rich and colourful score is reminiscent at times of Prince Igor and Scheherazade, but still very much Nielsen’s own.

On its original release, this was the first recording of the complete score. Musical Times commented at the time “the special value of such a recording is enhanced by the quality of the performance, for the exotic character is well suited to Rozdhestvensky’s larger-than-life musical personality.” The Telegraph commented, “Nielsen at his symphonic best… you will be thrilled and captivated throughout.

This terrific performance is now rightly reissued amongst the ‘Classic’ performances on Chandos.

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